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[QUOTE="Charley Horse, post: 1703694, member: 6990"]
Maybe.  Maybe not.

That [I]is[/I] the conventional wisdom that OU is unhappy and if OU can't be mollified, they will leave the Big 12 when the GOR runs out, and if OU leaves Texas will leave, and without OU and Texas the Big 12 will lose its relevance.

Now, I'm pro-expansion so don't take this the wrong way, but think about this:

We've been led to believe that seven Big 12 schools are pro-expansion and three are anti-expansion.  But what if that's not really true?

What if Boren is really the only discontented party and everybody else is rather ambivalent?

And what if Boren really isn't so much pro-network and pro-expansion as he is anti-LHN and pissed that OU isn't prospering as well?

Might it not be cheaper and easier (and possibly even in the best interest of ESPN) to simply appease OU by giving them their own LHN-type deal, instead of trying to force Texas to give up the LHN for the greater good of the conference?

And if OU gets paid, what's to stop Texas, OU and the other eight from living happily ever after?

That's just a thought.

I'd like to believe expansion is still a possibility but it's looking like some of the stakeholders are beginning to distance themselves from Boren.
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